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KDE SC 4.5 RC1 arrives

The KDE Project developers have issued the first release candidate (RC) for version 4.5 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), a development preview of the next major release for the popular Linux and Unix desktop. The final version of KDE 4.5 is scheduled to be released in August, 2010.

Of the 1,233 reported issues, KDE SC 4.5 RC1, code named "Coppu", addresses more than 1,160 bugs found in the second beta from early June and marks the feature freeze for the popular desktop. New features coming in version 4.5 of KDE include, for example, a reworked notification area, support for tiling in the KWin window manager and the use of the WebKit rendering engine in the Konqueror web browser.

As with all development releases, use in production environments and on mission critical systems is not advised. Users testing the release are encouraged to provide feedback and report any bugs that they encounter.